Israeli protesters have blocked highways and gathered outside Tel Aviv’s stock exchange and military headquarters in the latest countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s planned judicial overhaul.
Israeli military reservists block the entrance to a military base as they protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system in Tel Aviv, Israel, Tuesday, July 18, 2023. Israeli protesters blocked highways and train stations and gathered outside Tel Aviv's stock exchange and military headquarters on Tuesday in a new countrywide demonstration against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's planned judicial overhaul.
Demonstrators, many of them military reservists, created human chains and blocked one of the entrances to Israel's military headquarters in central Tel Aviv. Protesters flooded train stations across the country during afternoon rush hour. Police closed a central station in Tel Aviv, preventing hundreds of protesters from entering.
Itai Bar Natan, 48, CFO of an Israeli start-up, said he was angry enough to climb the scaffolding and wave the flag that read “Brothers in arms,” a slogan used by military reservists protesting the judicial overhaul. The Israel Medical Association also announced that doctors would be holding a two-hour strike in protest of the legislation on Wednesday.
Tuesday's protests came as Israel's figurehead president, Isaac Herzog, was visiting Washington and was set to meet with President Joe Biden. Biden spoke with Netanyahu by phone on Monday and invited him to meet in the U.S. this fall, despite expressing concern about the judicial overhaul.
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